{"id":149231,"date":"2022-10-31T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/worlds-largest-plane-flies-with-a-hypersonic-vehicle-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:27:18","slug":"worlds-largest-plane-flies-with-a-hypersonic-vehicle-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/worlds-largest-plane-flies-with-a-hypersonic-vehicle-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest plane flies with a hypersonic vehicle for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-plane-flies-with-a-hypersonic-vehicle-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flight lasted for five hours and six minutes over the Mojave Desert.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time on Friday, October 28, Stratolaunch\u2019s Roc, the world\u2019s largest plane, flew a prototype of the Talon-A separation test vehicle, TA-0, its air-launched hypersonic vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, the flight centered on measuring the aerodynamic loads on the Talon-A vehicle. \u201cThe loads captured in flight will validate aerodynamic predictions to ensure the release mechanism will function as designed,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stratolaunch.<\/p>\n<p>The flight, which was Roc\u2019s eighth, lasted for five hours and six minutes over the Mojave Desert, reaching an altitude of 23,000 feet (7,000 meters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flight lasted for five hours and six minutes over the Mojave Desert. For the first time on Friday, October 28, Stratolaunch\u2019s Roc, the world\u2019s largest plane, flew a prototype of the Talon-A separation test vehicle, TA-0, its air-launched hypersonic vehicle. According to a press release, the flight centered on measuring the aerodynamic loads on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}